Does anyone else think natural hair colour is the best?

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I was sat in a hospital waiting room this morning for hours. Did a lot of people watching. I'm thinking of getting balayage on my light brown hair so was looking at what other women had done.

There was a lot of box dyes, either a redish colour or unnaturally black and lots of women with my colour hair plus highlights/balayage. I dont think any of them looked better. The women who's hair looked best were the ones with natural, shiny hair and a good cut. I didn't see anyone who looked improved with dye. I'm thinking I'll save my money and stick with my natural colour.

I’m the same, I’ve tried blonde but it washes me out, I need the contrast.

I just find it rude how dismissive and questioning people are over my hair. Even though people also tell me it’s beautiful, I have too many random people who think they can comment. Honestly I was just out having lunch with DH and this woman comes over and starts asking if my hair is real because it’s ‘soooooo dark’ 🙄🙄🙄

People need to realise that white people can have almost black hair ffs, the ‘black Irish’ is a well known gene type!

…and it’s not ‘obviously fake’ thanks 🙄😛

Depends if you've got shiny hair. Some womens hair looks amazing. All they do it have an occasional trim and a brush. The rest of us are left with bleugh coloured mousey hair with split ends.

TabithaTittlemouse oh calm down, I can confirm that no sick person was harmed by my 'judgements'. I was waiting a long time, worried about a family member who had gone in for treatment but I couldn't go in with them, had nothing to read, no WiFi and found myself looking at people's hair in an attempt to calm my anxiety and make the time go quicker. If that makes me a bad person then shame on me but seriously, it was a harmless musing and I wondered what other people thought before I went and spent £££ on potentially unnecessarily hair colour.

90sBritPop the black hair was obviously fake because they had regrowth and you can tell the difference between naturally black hair and a box dye. Obviously white people can have black hair-my mum and brother do!

Thanks for all the other replies. The general consensus is that we'll done colour can certainly make you feel and look better. Maybe I'll just go for it and see if I feel any different for it.

I had just this conversation with a hairdresser last week. She persuaded me not to get my hair dyed as my natural colour is really trendy apparently. Mousy with greys is now called ash blonde you know! 😆

Mine for example.

I agree. I see hair dye like fake nails. Both look great until the regrowth comes through, at which point they look dreadful. The regrowth undoes the whole point of those first few weeks of glamour.

Sadly greying mousy hair shoved in a pony tail is not a great look. Box dye can be OK. I like a reddish box dye on others. I get a mix of highlights and low lights in my dark blonde hair and it just looks good. Dsis is natural and a bit darker than me and she looks good too.

Fine for you OP if you aren't going grey and you have a good natural colour. A well done baylayage or highlights looks fab.

Well done colour adds shine to hair. I'm (just) post menopausal. No discernible grey. But my chestnut brown hair has lost shine. So I get a glossy subtle balayage from a hairdresser who knows her stuff. It's basically the same colour as my natural hair. It looks so much healthier.

You shouldn't be able to tell a good dye job especially if somebody is keeping up with the roots. People really think that my hair colour is naturally blonde - pale skin and blue eyes. They say they can't even imagine me with my original near black hair. I got the early greyness gene so I started greying as a teenager. I'd have stuck with my natural hair (if it had stuck with me) as it was a striking combination. Probably the only change I'd have made otherwise was if I was mousey and I think some subtle blonde hightlights can be very pretty in that type of hair.

I have dirty blonde hair and get highlights consisting of 3 colours. No way is my natural colour better, its awful

Looking back at photos of me with bleach blonde hair, it just looks like so much work, and without make up I looked really washed out. Plus all the conditioning treatments and stuff. It was usually in shite condition.

I think generally natural hair, or close to the natural colour looks best.

Natural haircolor is a gift, which is not appreciated...

To the op you should try the Naturtint hair colours as they have not got the same chemicals in them and leaves the hair lovely and shiny. I take a box of it which I get in health shop and hairdresser uses it for my greys. Makes me feel and look better but my hair grows so fast that in a few weeks needs to be done again so I buy that spray in root colour to give me a few more weeks as cannot afford to keep going. Used to do my own dye years ago but too much hassle now. Wish could go blonde as greys blend in more with regrowth but would be soo much of a drastic change for me that I would think I would just look so strange and like my dark hair even though get bored of it at times.

No, your natural hair colour definitely doesn't always look better.

I'm Latin American, and my natural hair colour is an awful weird sort of ashy, grey-ish brown with green undertones, hard to describe, but it looks like a bad dye stripping job. It's always been that colour, and so I dye it "proper" dark browny black. Looks 1000x better and I doubt you'd know as I never let roots develop. Now it just looks natural.

I don't think there is one rule for this, and it's certainly subjective.

I've never dyed my hair (am mid thirties). I'm fine with the colour, it suits me and I think that's kept it in a really nice condition. I always assume it's nothing special; a light ashy brown with various tones going through it in daylight but it does get the occasional compliment.

I often look at all the instagram balayage photos and wonder if I should do it but never do. It looks gorgeous freshly done but I don't think grown out colour ever looks great. I wouldn't box dye my hair so when I go grey if I decide to fight against it I will go to the hairdresser but until then will enjoy it as is (and enjoy the absolute bare minimum effort and cost it creates)

How could you possibly know if it looked better? Did you ask for a before and after photo? How do you know that those with the nice hair weren't just more subtle dye jobs?

To have a nice result you really need to commit to it when dying. Do it properly and regularly, which costs a lot!
I am keepong my natural colour, whites and all. For the environment too, it is a lot of chemical for just a different colour in my hair...

I haven't dyed my hair for a few months (it's 80% white now') my son said "wow your hair is blonde mummy."

My daughter "that's grey, all grey"

Actually it's white, but it's not flattering, so I dye it. too young to be white, or grey😂

My daughter has balayage, it's stunning, grows out like natural summer highlights. If it's done well, it's really good. (but expensive)

This is a scary thread to read the day before my first professional dye

But my hair has faded to a shade that can best be described as tired rust, so it must be done

Nope I dye my hair bright ginger and it gets compliments daily

Yeah but what’s the fun in that?

My natural colour is dark mouse with a bit of frizzy white... trust me it looks much prettier tinted & highlighted!!
It will never be ultra shiny as it's fine & curly...